Samuel Beckett LE Bateau Ivre

For our first album, we have chosen three original works that have accompanied us through six years of experimentation, training, travel and success as a quintet. This chronologically limited musical programme paints a portrait of an era, between avant-garde effervescence, neo-classical temptations and world catastrophe. When André Jolivet composed his Chant de Linos in 1944, the world explored by Admiral Jean Cras had disappeared forever, and his music with it. At the Halfway point, László Lajtha’s work bears witness to an acute awareness of the political situation and an artistic posture that is both avant-garde and engaged: a certain art of musical irony?

Une sélection de poèmes dévoilant les thèmes de prédilection de l'auteur, tels que la communion avec la nature, l'art du vagabondage ou encore l'attention à la sensualité du monde. Avec un dossier pédagogique pour saisir les enjeux de l'oeuvre. …